Have a Blessed Mabon and a Happy Autumn!

 

A Year of Herbs

 

My Mother was a Herbalist

Who lived to ninety five

And with her pills and potions

She kept us all alive!

She boiled her herbs - in a big black pot

She had a big black Cat

Some say she flew on a Broomstick

But we won't go into that!

January was DANDELION

Whose juice could cleanse our biles

February YELLOW CELENDINE

Was brewed for Granddads piles!

March brings out the PRIMROSES

A cure for your rheumatics

April sees the STICKWORT bloom

For wheezers and asthmatics!

May brings all the BLUEBELLS

Whose roots are used for starch

June grows the scented MEADOWSWEET

Whose mead your thirst will parch!

July the bold PETUNIA

With Heinz cures fifty-seven

August brings purple KNAPWEED

Which makes you feel like Heaven!

September blooms the FEVERFEW

A cure for any fever

October's YARROW's good for you

You'll all sing like a Diva!

November comes the LEMON GRASS

Gives out a fine aroma

December juice from MIStLETOE

Will cure your worst hangover!

Aloe Vera - Silver Sage and Golden Golden Rod

Gingo - Evening Primrose and Periwinkle too

Boil them up they'll cure your bod

A real Old Witches brew!

From New Years Day to Christmas Eve

We never had a fear

A dose of Mother's remedies

Would wipe each tear!

John Knight

Art Nadia Turner

Nature's Gifts

 

Nature gifts her bounty fair,

In root and leaf and flower,

And there within she leaves a drop,

Of all her wildest power,

For balm and salve the wise can make,

To heal the wound and mind,

And through the lore of herb and plant,

We see Great Mother kind.

~ Words by Robin Green-Elk

Artist Nicola Bailey.

It's September!